Uber's plan to create flying taxis moved a step closer as the ride-hailing firm announced that it will open a laboratory in Paris to develop them.
It will invest €20m (£17.5m) over five years to create AI algorithms and air traffic cont…
Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment firm Go-Jek on Thursday said it would enter Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines in the next few months, investing $500 million in its international push.
The move will start with r…
In September, Amazon announced it was adding support for Alexa voice control to its Amazon Music app for iOS and Android. However, it was implemented as a tap-to-talk function – something that didn’t quite mesh with the hands-free voice…
US President Donald Trump may not "block" Twitter users from viewing his online profile due to their political beliefs, a judge in New York has ruled.
District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan said that blocking access to his @re…
Russian state telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor will check by December whether Facebook and possibly Whatsapp are complying with Russian laws, TASS news agency reported on Thursday, citing the head of the watchdog.
Russia has sai…
Uber [UBER.UL] said it will provide more information in the coming weeks on how it plans to stop diesel using cars in London and of a proposed scrappage scheme, as the court date nears for the taxi app to defend its right to operate in Lon…
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of bitcoin and other digital currencies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
The investigation concerns illegal practices that can …
Starting this week, Facebook will begin asking users worldwide to review their privacy settings with a prompt that appears within the Facebook app. The experience will ask you to review how Facebook uses your personal data across a rang…
Criminals have stolen about $1.2 billion in cryptocurrencies since the beginning of 2017, as bitcoin’s popularity and the emergence of more than 1,500 digital tokens have put the spotlight on the unregulated sector, according to estimates …
Google has enraged a leading film-maker by using his footage in a corporate video that later leaked online.
The technology company used material from more than half a dozen of Philip Bloom's films to make a provocative presentation abou…
Several tech firms have opted to block EU residents from using their services because of concerns they are not compliant with a shake-up to the 28-nation bloc's data privacy laws.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes…
Have you ever experienced that feeling when you had to stop and take a mental picture of your surroundings, taking in every second, every moment you had in that place? Those moments when buildings became monuments, when a bridge became the…
Acer Inc will unveil its first line of high-end laptops running Google’s Chrome OS on Wednesday, an executive told Reuters, as the computer maker looks to help Google in its effort to win over business users after taking the U.S. education…
Facebook is asking British users to send naked photos of themselves to the social network, to try to stop revenge porn.
If you're worried an intimate photo of you could be shared by someone else, the idea is to get it blocked before it …
Amazon has defended working with US police forces to provide facial recognition technology, amid concern from civil rights groups.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and others, said the retail giant's Rekognition software guide…
Bui Mai Phuong is an avid online shopper, ordering anything from clothing to personal-care products from her smartphone. But she prefers to pay with cash.
She is among hundreds of millions of people whom firms such as Softbank Group-bac…
nChain Group, the leading blockchain research and development group, has closed deal terms to acquire a majority stake in HandCash. HandCash is a Bitcoin Cash mobile wallet which uses near field communication (NFC) technology to make it as…
President Emmanuel Macron told executives from the world’s biggest technology firms on Wednesday that he wanted innovation to be a driving force for the French economy, but also that they needed to contribute more to society.
The French…
BMW's car computer systems have been found to contain 14 separate flaws, according to a study by a Chinese cyber-security lab.
They could, in theory, let hackers take at least partial control of affected vehicles while in use.
The re…
Uber Technologies plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers to other taxi providers, as it seeks to expand in the country where the U.S. firm has been blocked from setting up its own fleet o…
Adobe announced today that it was acquiring Magento for $1.68 billion. The purchase gives Adobe a missing e-commerce platform piece that works in B2B and B2C contexts and should fit nicely in the company’s Experience Cloud.
It should …
Banks now send more than 16 text alerts every second in an indication of how much we now rely on smartphones rather than computers to manage our money.
Some 512 million alerts were sent last year telling people their salary had been pai…
In a field of sugar beet in Switzerland, a solar-powered robot that looks like a table on wheels scans the rows of crops with its camera, identifies weeds and zaps them with jets of blue liquid from its mechanical tentacles.
Undergoing …
Tesla boss Elon Musk has admitted there is a braking issue in its Model 3 cars but promised a firmware update to fix it "in the next few days".
The problems were flagged up in a review of the electric car by US website Consumer Reports.…
Mark Zuckerberg is facing the European Parliament on Tuesday, answering yet more questions about how his company will tackle a scandal over the improper use of Facebook members' data.
It's one of several crises engulfing the company in …
The University of Greenwich has been fined £120,000 ($160,000) by the Information Commissioner.
The fine was for a security breach in which the personal data of 19,500 students was placed online.
The data included names, addresses, d…
While most SD-WAN (software defined wide area network) solutions promise to save money and improve network agility, it is possible to help customers build a better WAN to deliver higher levels of application performance, business productiv…
He's been referred to as one of the UK's most eligible bachelors but Hollywood star Hugh Grant is finally tying the knot.
The Four Weddings and a Funeral and Paddington star is set to wed the mother of three of his children, Swedish TV …
Shares in Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) jumped more than 4 percent on Monday as investors were encouraged by the company’s placing a $78,000 price tag on the fully-loaded version of its Model 3 sedan.
Separately, research firm Berenberg raised its…
Ride-hailing firm Grab will partner with Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), Malaysia’s biggest bank, to drive the usage and adoption of its GrabPay mobile wallet, the companies said in a statement on Monday.
Grab, which received its e-money…
Britain will tackle “the Wild West elements” on the internet from cyberbullying to online child exploitation by introducing new laws for social media companies, digital minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday.
Launching a consultation on w…
The diagnosis of cancer and other diseases in the UK can be transformed by using artificial intelligence, Theresa May is to say.
The NHS and technology companies should use AI as a "new weapon" in research, the PM will urge in a speech …
In a change of plan, the public will be able to watch Mark Zuckerberg's response to European Parliament leaders' privacy concerns.
The body's president, Antonio Tajani, has tweeted that tomorrow's 75-minute meeting would be livestreamed…
Two smart luggage firms have closed in May, with both blaming changes to airline policies regarding how lithium batteries can be taken on board planes.
Raden and Bluesmart said the changes, by several major airlines in December 2017, ha…
In the race to build autonomous vehicles, what is the right balance between encouraging innovation and making sure our cities are safe?
That is one of the big questions we address in this week's edition of Tech Tent.
Stream or dow…
Which? says many UK households get half the broadband speed they pay for.
Customers on a 38Mbps service received average speeds of 19Mbps, according to its findings, taken from 235,000 uses of its broadband speed checker tool.
And th…
Ethereum is the top public blockchain in the cryptocurrency space, while that of bitcoin, the original virtual currency, is ranked 13th, according to the Chinese government’s first monthly Global Public Chain Assessment Index released on T…
Apple this morning announced another expansion of Everyone Can Code, bringing its Swift coding curricula to a number of US schools focused on students who are blind and deaf. The current list includes eight schools in California, New Yor…
Uber [UBER.UL] submitted an appeal on Friday against the decision by the southern coastal English city of Brighton to strip the taxi app of its licence for not being “fit and proper” over data concerns and the use of drivers from outside t…
No, it’s not a “regram” option. Sorry! But today, Instagram is officially launching a new feature that will allow users to re-share someone’s Instagram post with their friends via Instagram Stories – something it confirmed was in testi…
Fortnite is finally coming to Android…in a matter of months. After dominating the iOS gaming charts since March, the wildly popular sandbox survival game will be hitting the world’s top mobile operating system at some point this summer.
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After 14 months of silence since launching, Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone. And now it’s time to earn some money off it. Facebook Stories will start testing its …
Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.76 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish government to hold 13 billion euros in disputed taxes, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Friday.
The European Commission ordered Apple in…
By Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety and Karuna Nain, Global Policy Programs Manager at Facebook
Today we’re excited to launch our Youth Portal, a central place for teens that includes:
Education: Information on how to get…
Mobileye, Intel Corp’s Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars at a European automaker with its self-driving technologies, a company official told Reuters.
Financial terms of the deal and…
The UK technology sector grew 2.6 times faster than the UK economy as a whole last year, new figures show. One of the biggest growth areas was in compassionate tech, with new apps and online services helping society's most vulnerable.
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Facebook has confirmed its chief executive will meet leading members of the European Parliament to discuss privacy concerns in Brussels.
The date of the meeting with Mark Zuckerberg has yet to be fixed but the president of the European …
Details have been released of the first ever console controller designed and made specifically for disabled gamers.
Microsoft says the Adaptive Controller will give people easier access to the games they love.
Currently players have …
The introduction of Nokia ‘1’ smartphone on Android (Go edition) by HMD Global, the Nokia phone manufacturers has given Ghanaians an exceptional phone experience.
The high quality, but affordable smartphone guarantees a wholesome but po…
As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theaters, Netflix Inc is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home.
The streaming service is on track to release at least 86 Netflix original films in 2018, the company t…